MacGyver

I've always thought if their end goal was a single payer system, then the ACA was a brilliant opening move, as no private entity can compete with an organization that is willing to operate at a loss quarter after quarter. If you're really wanting a good conspiracy theory to chew on, maybe the "failed" rollout was actually planned to accelerate the transition... Personally, I don't buy that theory. I don't think they're smart enough to pull it off.

He has no intention of changing the law.  This whole thing was designed to try and slow down the developing stampede of Democrats who were going to vote with the House Republicans tomorrow.  The only major difference between what Obama offered and what the House has proposed is that the Republican plan would continue to sell "cancelled" plans for the next year, where the Obama plan would nix new enrollment.   Problem is.  All of the major insurers have already acted in good faith to obey the portion of the law that went into effect 44 days ago.  The insurers aren't going to play ball.   If the GOP is smart (and those are long odds), they'll use whatever clout they have with big business (the insurers) to get the message out that this "administrative fix" isn't going to help address the problems.  At this point, if they push, they can likely really get a year delay - which takes it out past the mid-term elections.  Assuming they can get on message and actually bring some people to their side (again not holding out a lot of hope), they could possibly take enough seats to attempt a real repeal - which the president will veto - and we'll have two years of absolute gridlock - which I'm okay with.

This is nothing but trying to give Democratic lawmakers cover to avoid voting for the House Republican plan being offered tomorrow.   It sounds like a delay, but pragmatically it exactly nothing.  Health Insurance companies have already acted in good faith, assuming the law would be implemented.  The plans have already been cancelled.  And none of them are going to jump through hoops to act against their own self interest (any more so than the ACA already requires) to renew a plan that's going to be constantly bad mouthed and cancelled again in a year anyway.   And yet...

Mind you, Tiffany doesn't look like she weighs 100lbs. with her boots on, but that thing is a lot bulkier in person than I expected from the pictures - and not in a good way.   There appear to be a couple of quality issues that present themselves right away.  I don't like the plastic picatinny rail.  It also doesn't look like the threads for the rail inserts are anything but plastic.    I'm sure they'll do a hi-cap mag at some point, so that issue will likely become moot - but who knows when that's going to happen.   At almost $700 - assuming their online price is accurate, there are a lot of other weapons in a more proven platform that I'd consider.  A Beretta PX4 Storm can't be too much more than that.  If you're going to go with a 16" barrel and not SBR it, you could probably build a DDLES or Lonewolf pistol caliber carbine for that kind of money, too.

Bumping this up for a few more days.  I'll send out names on Monday.   If you want in, please make sure you've responded to this thread and sent me your Name and shipping address via PM with a designation of whether you want to be included in the regular secret santa or the handmade variant.

Bumping this up for a few more days.  I'll send out names on Monday.   If you want in, please make sure you've responded to this thread and sent me your Name and shipping address via PM with a designation of whether you want to be included in the regular secret santa or the handmade variant.

I know...scary isn't it. 

Appreciate it.    While we're not necessarily striving for a "family show", you'll note if you search for just about anything firearms related in Google that TGO is pretty likely to come up within the first 10 results.  We'll just say that a lot of people read these pages.  We're not trying to cater to anyone.  But, we're trying not to let them take the easy shots when they judge all of us rednecks with too many guns, either.

  Dangit wasn't the one that generated the comment.

I carried that same CRKT knife for a couple of years. I don't know what it was about that clip, but the combo of the clip and the thumb stud in such close proximity could wear through a pair of jeans faster than any other knife I've ever had. +1 on the grip extension. And despite the abundance of .380 pocket rockets available today - I don't know that the Seecamp's equal has been produced, yet.

  Can we nix the creatively misspelled bad words designed to get around the filter?  I know some of you don't necessarily care for it, but we've got it in place for a reason.

Man, you were on the list of people who made an account over at CMT and got it converted to the TGO group.  You should have gotten at least one email with instructions from CMT on October 11th -not to mention all the talk in the threads here of ordering being open.   Sorry!

You could call these guys:  http://prbutcher.com/   Likewise, you might check with a local processor.

I'm closing this thread.    Everybody's had ample opportunity to say everything they wanted to say, and yet I doubt that anyone has changed their minds about anything.   So, congratulations.  I guess.

I've got you.   I've got a Micro Eagle as well.  It's a well built little pistol, but the Seecamp is in a whole different class. 

Make sure you don't get a "California edition" without handling it first.  The safety is pretty wonky on those models IMO.   They're very well built.  Your grandkids will likely fight over it long after you're gone.

I've always enjoyed the Seecamp family.  Great little pistols.   Why the .32 instead of the .380?  Other than 5 hundredths on the grip width, they're the same size and capacity.    I haven't priced them in a while, but I'm guessing the .380 is still seeing a bit of premium on the price.

Agreed. But as soon as the bedwetters figure out that this guy: Used the same components that make this: Combined in bulk to do this: They're going to try and ban it. We all know it's pointless, but it doesn't mean they're not going to work themselves up trying to criminalize it. I mean, you can't even go and buy your kid a chemistry set anymore...

Years ago I used to keep a quarter for a payphone in my wallet - but when's the last time you saw one of those?   These days I use this on the back of my phone - license, HCP, one card and a couple business cards.  I've been using it for a year or so, and just don't find myself needing more since all the affinity/membership cards can be scanned off your phone these days

I'm frankly surprised you can still buy Tannerite in it's branded form.  There have been plenty of people who have caused a whole lot of trouble by combining the components on their own en masse.   It'll get banned as soon as it generates enough attention.

Y'all realize that this election was for the Houston Community College Board, right?

  That's just a limitation of the software as it stands.    Maybe an update will come out at some point to address it, but it's not something we can influence or change on our end by somehow adjusting a setting.

My comment was directed towards the users who commented that they'd like to be able to post pictures directly.   The forum software's basis is filtering is certainly a security issue.  There have been a host of hacks that have born out the concern.   But, as a practical matter, as consumers of this forum software - not developers, we're kind of limited in what we can do anyway.  The only files that are allowed are types that are whitelisted.  Remove that list, and the software won't allow you to link anything.  To look at your original image above, this has more to do with how some web servers are hosting image files and the fact that it's not listing an extension.  So, your image above is a valid .png file, but since the hosting server doesn't list an extension, IPB isn't going to allow it.  Maybe at some point they'll update to looking at mime-type, but it's not something that David or I can influence.

I can't imagine how our database would grow if we started allowing people to post pictures at will.  Discount the potential security issues (known and unknown) with allowing users to upload files entirely.  Subtract potential legal issues with hosting images we don't own, and it's still not something we're really going to be interested in doing.  It simply boils down to performance issues. We already spend a ton of time balancing performance with database size.  One poorly resized picture could literally consume the database space of thousands of threads with pictures linked from external sources.    I just don't see it happening.

Most of the major insurance carriers have exclusions that essentially require their insureds to prohibit weapons if they want to remain insured.  I expect you can get away with it when you're a smaller company, but when you get big enough that they actually start auditing your practices, it's going to come up.